The invention belongs to an oval sheet 
beam electron gun, which is used with a travelling 
wave tube, a backward 
wave tube and the like. The oval sheet 
beam electron gun comprises a shell, an 
electric heating wire in the shell, a 
cathode component, a focusing 
electrode component and an 
anode, wherein an emitting surface of a 
cathode head of the 
cathode component is a plane, the focusing 
electrode component comprises a pyramidal focusing hole, and the 
anode is positioned at an output port of the shell and provided with an 
anode hole which is a cylindroid hole. The cathode head is made of 
lanthanum hexaboride, the emitting surface of the cathode head is modified into a plane, a pyramidal hole with a rectangular axial section is used as the focusing hole, and the cylindroid hole is used as the anode hole, so that the oval sheet 
beam electron gun has the advantages that the oval sheet beam 
electron gun is simple in structure and convenient in 
processing, the precision is easy to be guaranteed, devices are easy to be miniaturized, the production cost is low, current emitted by the cathode head is high in density, operation frequency of the devices and 
current density of 
electron beams can be improved effectively, the 
electron gun is high in output efficiency and long in service life, and the like. The defects of complex structure, low 
current density and unevenness of the electron beams, high evaporativity and short service life of the cathode in operation at high temperature, and the like in the prior art can be overcome.